11. Worked / got / went等 (一般過去時 )
They watch television every evening. (一般現在時)
They watched television yesterday evening. (一般過去時)
B. 過去式通常為 -ed 形式 (指規則動詞)。例如:
- I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleaned my teeth.
- Terry worked in a bank from 1996 to 2003.
- Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.
- We enjoyed the party last night. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people.
- The party finished at midnight.
C. 有些動詞為不規則動詞，它們的過去式不是 -ed 形式。下表列出了一些重要的不規則動詞及其過去式
Begin | began |
break | broke |
bring | brought |
build | built |
buy | bought |
catch | caught |
come | came |
do | did |
drink | drank |
eat | ate |
fall | fell |
find | found |
fly | flew |
forget | forgot |
get | got |
give | gave |
go | went |
have | had |
hear | heard |
know | knew |
leave | left |
lose | lost |
make | made |
meet | met |
pay | paid |
put | put |
read | read |
ring | rang |
say | said |
see | saw |
sell | sold |
sit | sat |
sleep | slept |
speak | spoke |
stand | stood |
take | took |
tell | told |
think | thought |
Win | won |
write | wrote |
- I usually get up early, but this morning I got up at 9 o’clock.
- We did a lot of work yesterday.
- Caroline went to the cinema three times last week.
- James came into the room, took off his coat and sat down.
